Mograph Techniques: Modeling and Animating with Cinema 4D Cloners

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11/13/2013

In this installment of Mograph Techniques, Ian Robinson shows you how to model and animate a stylized 3D flower that grows and blooms over time, using the combined power of CINEMA 4D and Adobe After Effects. You'll start by creating a single flower petal with traditional polygonal modeling techniques. Then you'll load the petal into a cloner object, and nest that cloner inside another, resulting in a complete flower with multiple levels of control for animation. The second phase is animating the cloners and refining the animation with the Step Effector. In the third and final phase, you'll bring the project into After Effects to add animated color effects, transitions, text, and shadows.

Topics include:

Modeling flower petals in C4D

Creating shaded materials in C4D

Building flowers with multiple cloner objects

Building a dynamic transition with camera animation

Multipass Rendering out of CINEMA 4D

Adding and animating color effects in After Effects

Refining transitions

Rendering the final composite

Skill Level Intermediate

1h 28m

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- [Voiceover] My name is Ian Robinson,and welcome to Mograph Techniques:Modeling and Animating with Cinema 4D Cloners.(upbeat electronic music)During this course,we'll model and animate a stylized 3D flower,starting off by creating one single flower petalusing some traditional polygon modeling techniques.Then the real fun begins when we load that one petalinto a cloner object and then multiply the complexityby loading that cloner into another cloner.

In turn, creating our flower.We'll learn how to animate the clonersthrough the different levels of the build,and polish that animation by using the step effector.But the project isn't complete until we takethat animation into After Effects.There, we'll learn how to add color to our cloners,animate those colors, and finish upby tightening up the transitionsbetween the different sections of our animation.So, let's get started modeling and animatingwith Cinema 4D Cloners.